He was also fined 75,000 dollars and received credit for the roughly six months he has been in prison.

The judge ruled earlier this week Shkreli would have to forfeit more than 7.3 million dollars in a brokerage account and personal assets including his one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album he boasted he bought for two million dollars.

The judge said the property would not be seized until Shkreli had a chance to appeal.

Prosecutors argued the 34-year-old was a master manipulator who conned wealthy investors and deserved 15 years in prison.

The ‘Pharma Bro’ was jailed for defrauding investors (Picture: AP)

His lawyers said he was a misunderstood eccentric who used unconventional means to make those same investors even wealthier.

Attorney Ben Brafman told Mr Matsumoto he sometimes wants to hug Shkreli and sometimes wants to punch him in the face, but said his outspokenness should not be held against him.

‘He’s not a teenager who just needs some mentoring. He is a man who needs to take responsibility for his actions.’

Shkreli was slammed for defending the 5,000% price increase of Daraprim – a previously cheap drug used to treat HIV.

He was arrested in December 2015, remained tight-lipped when faced with a barrage of questions about the price hike from members of Congress a couple of months later, citing his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself.

After the hearing, he tweeted the lawmakers were ‘imbeciles’.

Shkreli insisted he was being persecuted by prosecutors for being outspoken and confidently predicted after his conviction that he was unlikely to be sentenced to jail.

However, The judge revoked his bail and threw him in jail, a decision she defended on Friday.

That did not tame Shkreli completely. He corresponded with journalists, ridiculing the personal appearance of one female reporter who asked him for an interview.

Before sentencing him, the judge said it was up to Congress to fix the issue of the HIV price-hike.